As one who has spent pleasant time on Sand Hill Road and the Stanford campus, I’m dismayed by the demands for special treatment coming from the denizens of one of America’s most privileged and affluent […]
Jesus opened his famous Sermon on the Mount with a list of “blessed sayings” known as the Beatitudes. He detailed certain character qualities along with the divine favor that awaited those who possessed or suffered […]
WASHINGTON — Located in quiet Beaufort County where the Tar River meets the Pamlico Sound, “Little” Washington is known as one of the state’s smallest but most charming coastal communities. In any season, a visit to […]
There are a lot of names thrown around as potential candidates who will seek the Republican nomination in hope of becoming president. Many of those names are just that — names. The truth is there […]
This past week, California regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), making it the second-largest bank failure in American history. As the securities regulators investigate the cause, many investors have pointed to a shift to […]
“Villainous.” “Terrorism.” “Lawlessness.” “Fraudulent.” These are some of the choice words that Professor Gene Nichol recently deployed against five elected justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court on the pages of the Charlotte Observer. The invective didn’t stop […]
We are in a looming financial crisis, even if we don’t want to see it. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was, according to Moody’s, worthy of an investment-grade rating as of March 8, 2023. S&P Global […]
The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — the bank that just went bust — was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding […]
“Make the most of every opportunity.” Colossians 4:5 Our days come to us filled with opportunities for gathering knowledge, growing wise, growing in character, becoming stronger, truer, purer, nobler, more Christ-like, doing heroic things […]
“I have no respect for the passion of equality,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America’s great jurists, once declared, “which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” But envy, and its sister vice, greed, are […]
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